Life of Lord Chesterfield; an account of the ancestry, personal character & public services of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield[microform] . ut had also the reputation of being aprude. Lord Chesterfields celebrity as a man of plea-sure had reached this ladys ears; and when certainstories of his amorous adventures, which we may besure lost nothing in the telling, were retailed in a com-pany where she happened to be present, she denouncedhis profligacy with the indignation it deserved; at thesame time expressing her horror at the prospect of heryoung charges being exposed to the contamination ofh
Life of Lord Chesterfield; an account of the ancestry, personal character & public services of the fourth Earl of Chesterfield[microform] . ut had also the reputation of being aprude. Lord Chesterfields celebrity as a man of plea-sure had reached this ladys ears; and when certainstories of his amorous adventures, which we may besure lost nothing in the telling, were retailed in a com-pany where she happened to be present, she denouncedhis profligacy with the indignation it deserved; at thesame time expressing her horror at the prospect of heryoung charges being exposed to the contamination ofhis presence in the society which their position obligedthem to keep. Some persons who knew the Ambassadorsweakness took care that the story should reach his ears ;and in the exultation produced by such a tribute to hisprowess as a lady-killer, he is said to have then andthere made the nefarious bet—that he would seduceMadame du Bouchet first, and the most beautiful ofher charges next—which bet, so far as it related to theelder lady, he eventually won. The story is bad enoughto be true; but so far as we have been able to discover,. /r. Greatbatch. SculptMARY LEPEL, LADY HERVEYFtom a miniature fo7-7nerly at Strawberry Hill
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